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29 june 2004 the
e-paper
playlouder
published a very long interview with john 'drumbo' french, titled
french
redressing. the main content dealt
with the magic band reunion going on, but suddenly:

interviewer grahame
bent: Word is there's also a magic
band dvd on the way...

It's basically the
Shepherd's
Bush concert from April last year
and it's basically the concert with the dead spaces in between edited out.
I think it's a really good show. It was done on a sixteen track Apple Macintosh
and I think they used four cameras. It wasn't really planned as a concert
dvd. The producer was Elaine Shepherd - she's a BBC producer and she produced
The
artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart(and
despite her surname has no connection to the venue - teejo) - and the
concert footage was supposed to be for a documentary but she shot the whole
concert and at the end of it all she was looking at the footage and said:
'You know, I think we could actually put together a concert dvd out of
this' and that's how it came about. The sound is really good, it's going
to be in 5.1 sound except everything crashed on the last two songs and
we only have a stereo stage mix of them so we're calling them 'bonus tracks'.

Disc 2 is the documentary
called Like Bluegrass, Only Weirder
and I think it flows really well. It shows us at the Back
To The Front sessions in Palmdale
and rehearsing for the first time when we got back together to play and
each of us is talking about how good it feels to be playing the music again.
There's footage of Matt Groening coming to hear the rehearsal and there's
an interview with him, then there's some vintage 8mm footage I shot of
Don van Vliet in the early 70's, then it shows us winding up in London
and driving down to Camber Sands [for the live debut at All Tomorrow's
Parties - t.t.], then there's some rehearsal footage and you see us being
interviewed by the press.

Any idea when the
dvd will be seeing the light of day?

We have a very influential
person who has agreed to do the voice over and the narration for us so
we're waiting until that has been done. That's going to take another month
or so then it should be out really soon after that. I'm really excited
about having the person who's going to be doing this on board but I don't
want to give anything away (to protect john peel ? - teejo). The double
dvd will be available through the internet at themagicband.com.
Basically I think we'll start doing it by mail order and take it from there.

Due to delays beyond our
control, the new Magic Band DVD release has been set back by a few more
weeks. The final manufacturers delivery date has now been given as 03.01.05,
this means that the Magic Band DVD will definitely be available for shipping
from this date. To coincide with the shipping date, a secure online purchasing
system will be available for efficient payment and delivery processing

once had an interesting offer:

The first 100 advance
orders received through this site will be signed by the band....

This first release on
SubDiva provides great value as it combines a full live concert along with
a related documentary. Called 'Crow's Milk' and narrated by John Peel
(ah,
didn't i predict? - teejo), the film follows
the band rehearsals in California in February 2003 to their first live
shows in the UK later that year.